AP English: rhetorical devices
Terms
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- anadiplosis
- repetition at the end of one clause, then the beginning of the next
- anaphora
- beginnings of clauses
- anastrophe
- inversion, against syntax
- epistrophe
- repetition ion at the end of successive clauses
- assonance
- repetition of vowel sounds
- synecdoche
- understanding one thing with another, the use of a part for the whole
- metonomy
- one thing represents somethings else. the "crown"
- isocolon
- similarly structured clauses, same length
- epanalepsis
- repetition at the beginning and end of a clause
- antimetabole
- repetition in reverse
- antiphrasis
- ironic
- enumeratio
- listing